Manuals
- The strengths and weaknesses of a variety of poverty gap measures
- This training module deals with generalised poverty gap measures, particularly those poverty measures based on the definition of the poverty gap. The analysis facilitated the possibility to investigate poverty on a more advanced basis, compared with the information conveyed by the headcount ratio and the simple poverty gap measure.
Latest Additions
- Tools for evaluating NGO impact in the area of savings and credit
- ( NGO Impact on Development, Empowerment and Actions , 2007)
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The NGO-IDEAS impact tool box was developed to support NGOs working in the area of savings and credit, in the context of South India. The approach is based on some principles that can applied ...
Integrating the linkages between the environment and poverty reduction processes and institutions
- ( UNDP-UNEP Poverty-Environment Initiative , 2009)
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Poverty-environment mainstreaming is the process that aims at integrating the linkages between the environment and poverty reduction processes and institutions. This handbook has been designed to p...
- Participatory approaches to integrated risk management
- ( A. Holloway;R. Roomaney / PreventionWeb , 2008)
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Residents of informal settlements often bear the brunt of extreme weather and associated flooding. This guide is intended to strengthen participatory risk assessment capabilities for a wide range o...
- Applying a rights-based approach in CSO programming
- ( J. Kirkemann Boesen;T. Martin / The Danish Institute for Human Rights , 2007)
- Rights-based development starts from the ethical position that all people are entitled to a certain standard in terms of material and spiritual wellbeing. It takes the side of people who suffer injust...
- How to address and prevent land conflicts
- ( B. Wehrmann / Deutsche Gessellschaft fur Technische Zusammenarbeit , 2008)
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Land conflicts often have extensive negative effects on economic, social, spatial and ecological development. This is especially true in developing countries and countries in transition, where land...
- Social analysis for World Bank-supported projects
- ( A. A. Dani (ed) / World Bank , 2003)
- Understanding the social world in which the World Bank’s investment projects operate is critical to any effort to reduce poverty. The World Bank undertakes social analysis in connection with its...
- Understanding the complexities of social exclusion
- ( B. Schulze;et al. / MethodFinder , 2008)
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Deep-rooted power relations as well as socio-cultural institutions that enable or constrain human interaction lie at the core of social exclusion. Social exclusion and its multi-dimensional facets ...
- Analysis and assessment using HEAs
- ( International Save the Children Alliance , 2008)
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The Household Economy Approach (HEA) is a livelihoods-based framework for analysing the way people obtain access to the things they need to survive and prosper. It helps determine people’s fo...
- A partnership approach to tackling poverty
- ( S. Welford;J. Nelson;T. Viard / ATD Fourth World , 2008)
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In order to tackle the persistent and increasing problem of poverty, it is necessary to concentrate on more than just economic growth or the improvement of social or welfare services. A p...
- Gender in Agriculture from a sustainable livelihoods approach
- ( L. Brown;Y. Lambrou;R. Birner / International Fund for Agricultural Development , 2008)
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This sourcebook combines descriptive accounts of national and international experience in investing in agriculture with practical operational guidance on to how to design agriculture-for-developmen...
